According to Kiley McDaniel over at FanGraphs the Mets are rumored to have a deal in place with Dominican shortstop Gregory Guerrero for $1.8 million. The $1.8 million would eclipse the Mets previous International bonus record of $1.75 million they gave to Amed Rosario back in 2012. The signing would leave the Mets with roughly $730,000 left in International bonus money. Due to his age, the Mets...
Read More
Sacramento 4, Las Vegas 3 Matthew Bowman struggled in his second start of the season as the Las Vegas 51’s fell to Sacramento 4-3 last night. Bowman pitched 5.1 innings giving up four runs on six hits and one walk while striking out three. Bowman struggled against lefties who had 4 of the 6 hits against him including a 2-run homer. Scott Rice relieved Bowman with two runners on and walked...
Read More
Steven Matz got his 2nd AAA start and it did not go as well as the first as he walked five hitters and gave up five hits which lead to three runs for Sacramento. Matz got his first AAA loss in the 3-2 game and struggled to locate his fastball but didn’t get any help from the homeplate ump who had a small inconsistent strike zone. Matz did strike out five batters and had good movement on...
Read More
Noah Syndergaard made his long awaited season debut on Monday after being pushed back due to forearm stiffness. Las Vegas won 8-5 despite Noah struggling through four innings allowing 7 hits, 3 runs (2 earned) while walking 1 and striking out 2 and was taken out after throwing only 54 pitches (37 strikes). Thor topped out at 94 MPH while throwing very few breaking balls on the evening. Eric...
Read More
Las Vegas 51’s finally got their first win of the season 7-2 behind home runs by Brandon Allen, Darrell Ceciliani, and Alex Castellanos. Danny Muno led off and went 2-5 with a walk and Eric Campbell was 1-3 with 2 walks, 2B, and a run scored. Soup has started the season off hot going 5-10 with 3 walks showing Mets brass just maybe they could use another bench player. Darin Gorski started...
Read More
